It wasn’t the smoothest morning for Ann Romney, wife of the GOP presidential candidate, who sat in as guest host on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Tuesday. Not only did the First Lady hopeful have to dodge flying grease from an overheated pan, she had to deal with burned examples of her apparently famous Welsh cakes.

What she didn’t have to dodge were real questions about the campaign, the country, her husband or anything else. She interviewed a therapy horse and rider in Times Square, noting her own experience with equestrian therapy as an MS patient. It may go down as the least topical, most apolitical TV appearance by a political spouse this close to a national election.

“You should all know at home we invited Michelle Obama here for a special morning as well, and she is still working out her schedule,” George Stephanopoulos told viewers.

On Wednesday, Ann Romney, the wife of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, will get her extreme closeup, as fill-in host for Robin Roberts on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” An offer is out to Michelle Obama, the wife of the president, as well.

An ABC spokesperson said “GMA” producers are in talks with Mrs. Obama. “She is looking forward to doing it but there is no time in the schedule right now.”

Ann Romney will guest-host in the 8 a.m. hour alongside co-anchor George Stephanopoulos and correspondents Lara Spencer, Josh Elliott and Sam Champion. She is the latest fill-in host (following the cast of “Modern Family,” Stephen Colbert and Oprah Winfrey) since Roberts took her medical leave.

Clint Eastwood’s speech to the GOP convention Thursday night has been characterized in some quarters as funny/crazy. In fact, it was a serious miscalculation, a bad choice of speaker who ended up being shockingly disrespectful to the office of the president. The takeaway: how is the RNC capable of leading the country if it can’t keep an aging movie star on a leash?

The expression on Ann Romney’s face –that “You’re Ruining My Wedding!” look– conveyed how Eastwood’s performance went over with the Party higher-ups and convention organizers. Ever after, Eastwood’s “go f— yourself” speech will be remembered more vividly than anything the actual candidate uttered.

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.